1874 Succession Document for Pamela Dugas (1845-1874) Assumption Parish,
Louisiana. Submitted by David J. Valenziano
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Sept 4th, 1874
In the matter of the Successions of
Pamela Dugas
deceased wife of Elphege Dugas
and
Elphege Dugas (also deceased)
Proces Verbal of Sale
State of Louisiana
Parish of Assumption
Be it known that on this Seventh
day of the month of August in the year
of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred
and seventy four and of the Independence
of the United States of America the ninety-
ninth.
By virtue of and in obedience to an order of Sale to me
directed by the Honorable the Parish Court of the Parish of
Assumption, State of Louisiana, dated the Third day of the month
of July, One thousand Eight hundred and seventy four (1874)
lendered[?] in the matter of the above successions.
I Edgar Pierre Hellum[?] Sheriff of the Parish of
Assumption, aforesaid, repaired to the late residence of said
deceased, situated in this Parish of Assumption, in the Bruly
des Oliviers, in the Right Bank of Bayou Lafourche, for the
purpose of making the sale at Auction of the property and
effects belonging to said successions.
Said Sale having been advertised for more than Thirty
days in the official Journal of said Parish (The Assumption
Chronicle). And then by cutting off from the first [word illegible]
of said newspaper containing said advertisements, the
said advertisement, And posting them at the door of the
Court House of this Parish at the Parochial Church and
at Paincourtville in this Parish.
Before proceeding with said sale I announced
in a loud and audible voice the terms and conditions
of the Sale to be as follows; to wit:
The landed[?] Property and moveables to be sold for Cash.
Said landed[?] Property and moveables to be sold in
the order in which they were appraised and hereinafter described
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Before proceeding with said sale I also read in a loud
and audible voice a Certificate of Mortgages from the
Recorder of Mortgages of the parish dated the August
1874, which Certificate is hereunto annexed for reference.
And then and there at the hour of 11 O'clock
assisted by Messieurs William M. Marks and
Frank R. Comeau competent witnesses, domiciliated [living]
in this said Parish, proceeded with said sale in the manner
following to wit:
A certain tract of land situated in said Parish of Assumption
in Bruly Oliviers, measuring Two arpents and ten trises[?]
front by a depth of Fourten arpents, more or less, bounded
in the East side by the land of E.F.Xavier Dugas, on the
west side by that of Severin Blanchard, on the North
side by the Pierre Part Road, separating it from the land
of Herbert Simoneaux and on the South side by the land of
Jeseph Mollero, with all the buildings and improvements
thereon.
Said Tract of land belonging to the Succession of
Pamela Dugas sold and adjudicated to the minor
children, in said succession, Ferdinand, Thomas and Marguerite Dugas
by and through their Tutor Achille Dugas, they being the highest
and last bidders for the price and [word illegible] of Eight hundred
Dollars.
$800.00
signed Achille Dugas
[illegible signature]
A certain tract of land also situated in said Parish of
Assumption, in Bruly Oliviers, measuring one and a half
arpents front by Fourteen arpents in depth more or less,
bounded North by the Public road which separates it from
the land of Henry Leglen[?], South by the Highland plantation
(belonging to the succession of James Pugh) East by the land
of Jerome and Theophile Dugas and west by the lands of
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NOTES:
A copy of this succession document was obtained by my aunt from the
Assumption parish court house in about 1990. I was sent only the first
two pages of the document, so that is all that is transcribed here. My
notes are enclosed in braces [].
At the time this document was written in 1874, Elphege would have been
30 years old and Pamela would have been 29. They were married in 1867,
seven years prior to this document. Their surviving children were:
Jean Ferdinand Dugas, age 7
Thomas Dugas, age 4
Marguerite Dugas, age 2
Achille Dugas, mentioned in the document, would have been Pamela's
father. He would have been 67 years old. His first wife, Marie Farelie
LeBlanc, the mother of Pamela, had died 29 years ago. He had been
married to Ozite Mollere for 27 years. Pamela had 8 brothers and
sisters. The children stayed with Achille and Ozite at least 6 more
years. The 1880 census shows them living with Achille and
"Ausite". Later they lived with Christoper C. Clifton and and his wife
Henrietta Dugas.
David J. Valenziano, June 23, 1998
(great-grandson of Thomas Dugas)